Talk:Dissimilation

'relaxed'? 'flowing'? - somewhat impressionistic for an article on sound change ... 82.39.164.123 11:45, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree and have changed it accordingly Mishac 07:48, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Delineation of IPA transcriptions
Note that phonetic transcriptions ought to be surrounded with square brackets ([]) rather than slashes, while slashes should be reserved for (asserted) phonological transcriptions. See International Phonetic Alphabet for details. Hairy Dude 04:00, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

"Sechzehn"
The ch in "sechzehn" is not pronounced /x/ but /ç/, but I don't know how to modify that example given. -- KittySaturn 11:29, 1 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I gather it was taken care of but I eliminated that detail since it didn't really contribute anything. --The whole treatment was recast in the interest of technical accuracy and completeness (I would have preferred to eliminate the implied causations altogether, as such things are at best pseudoscientific, but in the end decided that leaving them in but dismissing them overtly would be more educational). Many added examples and sorted by type of dissimilation, in place of sorting the examples by language (whose point was lost on me). Alsihler 18:32, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

"Amphitheatre"
I don't think that this is actually an example for dissimilation, when the [f]-sound is so much closer to [m]. I'd say it's assimilated to the bilabial nasal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.102.193.72 (talk) 16:24, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Problems with Introduction
Reading through the introductory paragraph made me feel like I had made a comment in class that the professor disagreed with, and that I was being given a stern correction for contradicting the professor's pet views. It also seems to contradict what I remember reading in Aitchison's "Language Change: Progress or Decay". Just an observation....--RockRockOn (talk) 03:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, that needs to be changed. I'm working on it. kwami (talk) 03:51, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I took out the "repetitions of features across word boundaries do not tend to dissimilate, as they might be expected to do if the problem was simply a motor one of multiple articulations of the same or similar segments" comment altogether, as this could simply be a factor of lexicalization. kwami (talk) 04:08, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, I made explicit what the article was claiming about replicating historical change in Greek, and added Fact tags. kwami (talk) 04:11, 29 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Please also add a reference for Ohala, before someone adds a fact tag on you! CapnPrep (talk) 15:43, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Go ahead. The ref to Ohala came from the secondary source I quoted. I've seen it referred to in a couple places, so I'm comfortable with it, but don't have the ref myself. kwami (talk) 19:11, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

coronnel?
this is not a French word, as far as I can tell. Stjohn1970 (talk) 22:23, 1 September 2023 (UTC)


 * I was a French word at the time. Also coronel, couronnel, etc. I added Wiktionary link. – MwGamera (talk) 22:51, 2 September 2023 (UTC)